09/26/2026
Hit to the Soul, with new work by Rahn Marion, is officially open for your viewing pleasure. Join us for the opening reception tonight from 5 - 7:30 PM or from 11 AM on. Marion will give an artist talk on 10.17 at 1 PM and the exhibition will be on view thru 10.31. Don't miss it.
Drawing from Medieval manuscripts, Americana, and mythological and religious symbolism, Rahn Marion constructs a visual world where the sacred and the profane, the historical and the contemporary, continually collapse into one another. Rooted in his experience as a q***r Black man from the South, his paintings search for the sacred not as something fixed or inherited, but as something continually made and remade.
New works in Hit to the Soul are informed by the philosophy of jazz: a structure that creates freedom rather than containing it. Recurring figures, shapes, and rhythms establish a visual throughline across the exhibition, while color and gesture move with the spontaneity of improvisation. Swaths of saturated color ground and frame intricate figures and patterns, producing a tension between intensity and tranquility, restraint and excess.
Installation views by Houston Cofield.
